In addition to their national tour dates supporting fellow Brits Placebo next month, Deaf Havana are thrilled to announce sideshows for Sydney and Melbourne. They’ll hit the stage at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday September 7 followed by Oxford Art Factory, Sydney on Wednesday September 13.  Pre-sale commences 2.00pm on Friday August 18 until 5pm, Sunday August 20, with tickets on sale to general public from 9.00am on […]

Melbourne four-piece rock band Strangers have been confirmed to open for Alice Cooper and very special guest Ace Frehley, on the ‘Spend The Night With Alice Cooper’ October national tour.  Strangers have built a strong live following and recently released their second album ‘Mirrorland’  (Sony Music). Please find further information HERE. Alice Cooper, the architect of shock-rock, returns to Australia later […]

As anticipation builds towards the massive national tour this October, fans who missed out on securing tickets to the Melbourne and Brisbane legs of the ultimate rock show, ‘Spend The Night With Alice Cooper’, will be delighted to hear that these concerts are moving to larger capacity venues, with extra tickets now available! The Melbourne concert will now take place […]

“…we’ve got so much history and the ego thing’s kind of been left behind we just want to get out there and showcase the fact that great Australian pub rock didn’t end in the mid to late ‘80’s, we came along and kicked it in the butt in the early 90’s and hopefully we were able to fly the flag […]

It was March 1977 when Alice Cooper, the architect of shock-rock, undertook his first ever concert tour of Australia – and broke attendance records.  40 years on and this revered entertainer continues to surprise and exude danger at every turn, thrilling audiences globally! Fans will be delighted to hear that Alice Cooper will return to our shores this October for […]

“I guess because we started out very small and we built it up through the pubs and clubs it’s just enabled all of us, me included to just be creative and just enjoy the music, have fun and not think about anything other than that you know?” As far as Aussie rock goes you can’t beat a band out there […]

Would you like to see THE TEA PARTY live in Sydney on us? Well, thanks to our friends at TEG Live and RPM we have 2 x double passes to give away for what will be an amazing show as the band play with the Sydney Orchestra at the Star Events Centre on Friday April 21. So to be one of our two […]

Baby Animals and Screaming Jets, two of Australia’s finest rock bands, will hit the road together this June and July in the rock event of the year! Fronted by Suze DeMarchi and Dave Gleeson respectively, two of the country’s most dynamic performers, fans can look forward to a four on the floor night of rock from these incredible live acts  […]

“The difference is that you have to be on point and you have to sort of relearn the songs in their intimacy and in the simplest way without any diverging off on any tangents so it’s a bit of a mind fuck if you know what I mean, you’ve gotta really stick to it *laughs* so it’s a bit of […]

It’s a bit of a special night in Sydney as tonight the first show at the new ICC ‘Entertainment Centre’ or Sydney Theatre is happening, and it’s one I get to be at with Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood taking the stage it’s somewhat exciting to not only see two great artists but to also be a part of history […]

TEG Live has announced that Canadian trio The Tea Party will be in full flight with a Symphony Orchestra in an exclusive Sydney show next year. The Tea Party will collaborate with the Sydney Youth Orchestras in a majestic performance on Friday 21 April 21 2017 at The Star Events Centre. Australia began its love affair with The Tea Party […]

As they gear up to bring their high octane rock show to Australia, RSO: Richie Sambora + Orianthi are thrilled to announce much-loved local singer songwriter Sarah McLeod as their Special Guest.  Sarah’s high energy acoustic set has earned widespread acclaim and is the perfect opener to a smokin’ hot night of rock ‘n’ roll! Sarah made a name for […]

It is with genuine regret that RICHIE SAMBORA and ORIANTHI have been forced to cancel their upcoming performance at Metro City in Perth scheduled for this Friday, 23rd September. The recording of their new album with producer Bob Rock is at a critical stage and they have had to delay their arrival into Australia. Performances in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, […]

Would you like to see RSO – Richie Sambora and Orianthi live in Australia on us? Well, thanks to our friends at TEG Live and RPM we have a double pass to give away for each of the below shows for RSO’s upcoming Australian tour. You can read our interview with Richie Sambora HERE and check out what he has to say about […]

Baby Animals, one of Australia’s most revered rock bands, will tour early 2017 to mark the release of single ‘One Word’ 25 years ago. The band, fronted by the enigmatic Suze DeMarchi, alongside guitar legend Dave Leslie, bassist Dario Bortolin and drummer Mick Skelton, is a force to be reckoned with – time has not diminished the immense respect this […]

Keith Urban’s “ripCORD World Tour Australia 2016” has proved a resounding success with Australian fans as initial shows in Sydney and Melbourne sell out, and second shows are added in both cities to satisfy public demand. RIPCORD, Urban’s eighth studio album, is one of the standouts on this year’s ARIA Albums Chart. Debuting at Number One, the gold certified album […]

Respected Australian composer, producer and performer, and founding member of Boom Crash Opera, Peter Farnan, has today lifted the covers off his new project, Pesky Bones, including details of the PledgeMusic campaign that will precede the release of the album, ‘Volume One’. Pesky Bones ‘Volume One’ is a collection of 12 songs, written, performed and produced by Farnan, with guest […]

“When will you two play together again?” is the question both James Reyne and Mark Seymour have fielded many a time in the past nine years.  For fans of these iconic singer songwriters, the wait is nearly over, with a national tour “And The Rest Is History”, confirmed for the third quarter of this year. The live relationship between James […]

With 2017 marking 30 years since their debut release, Boom Crash Opera announce Winter dates as a prelude to a big year ahead Boom Crash Opera have always had a reputation for exciting live shows that blend boisterous, angular rock with soulful singing and a sense surging of joy and camaraderie.  They have a classic repertoire of hit songs – Onionskin, […]

Multi-Grammy and ARIA Award winning artist Keith Urban, who will release his eighth studio album RIPCORD on May 6th, has announced that he will be bringing his “ripCORD World Tour 2016”, home to Australia this December. The tour, which will feature the 7-time Grammy-award winning, multi-platinum superstar Carrie Underwood, will no doubt send Keith’s legion of fans here into a […]

Following the success of their recent four month, 32 date National tour as ‘special guests’ of James Reyne, Moving Pictures return this May to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the classic Australian album ‘Days Of Innocence’. Often referenced within ‘Classic Australian Album’ countdowns, ‘Days Of Innocence’ spent seven weeks at the top of Australian Music charts and spawned the iconic […]

NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FROM BILLY IDOL’s ‘KINGS & QUEENS OF THE UNDERGROUND’ ALBUM VIEW HERE BILLY IDOL builds on the urgency of his last single “Can’t Break Me Down” with a dramatic and mysterious video: http://smarturl.it/savemenowYT .  The new video is set to “Save Me Now,” an electro-rocking highlight co-written by Idol, Twin Shadow, and Greg Kurstin, from IDOL’s […]

“We spent two years working on this album and couple of times we thought we were finished we scrapped the whole thing and started over again, so we put really our heart and soul into this record and really came up with something that we’re really inspired by and we think something our fans will really appreciate…” From release: Out […]

“Jason Wade, Lifehouse’s lead singer, has always been a sturdy purveyor of melody…” – New York Times “Tracks like ‘Hurricane’ show Lifehouse at their most engaging, paving the way for Out of the Wasteland to be remembered as their biggest and best yet.” – Artist Direct “…it’s refreshing to see a band ignore everything else and simply be the best them that they can be, putting […]

Many doomsayers are writing rock’s obituary in 2015. But if you think rock is dead, ready yourself for the debut album from Melbourne’s Palace Of The King.  Titled White Bird/Burn The Sky, this is rock and roll that leaves a trail of denim-clad soldiers and converted non-believers in its wake. On June 19, 2015, it’s time for the White Bird […]

Purveyors of quality rock’n’roll, Melbourne rock band Palace Of The King is set to release their debut album in April 2015.  Ahead of this, they will whet the appetite with their riff-heavy brand of psych-blues rock n’ roll, releasing a new track each month from November 2014 through to March 2015. Five months, five singles, all to be unleashed on […]

“I think the live shows and the energy of the crowd and everything has sort of driven the direction of the songs, things have sort of got a different heartbeat to it and yeah I think that the way the live shows has been going has directing our song writing a bit.” From Release: The Kin have established themselves as […]

Rock icon BILLY IDOL will release Kings & Queens Of The Underground, his first new album in almost a decade, on October 17. The album will be released on Idol’s own BFI Records, via Kobalt Label Services. The track list for the new album is listed below. Kings & Queens Of The Underground was primarily produced by Trevor Horn, with Greg Kurstin also contributing […]

“…I just kept writing and I probably ended up with forty or fifty songs, and a lot of the things that fit together had that kind of lonesome and mournful vibe, but there were some that were also like sunshine was coming in, and that’s how it all kind of came together, it was like the songs that fit together […]

Australian Crawl is surely one of Australia’s most loved bands – revered in the same manner as their peers Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel and INXS, they played an integral part in the development of the Australian ‘sound’ and were one of the truly great rock groups of their time. From their inception in 1978, Australian Crawl existed for nearly nine […]